Science, Reason, and Rhetoric
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Science, Reason, and Rhetoric

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Science, Reason, and Rhetoric

About this book

This volume from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays focus on figures such as Galileo, Harvey, Darwin, von Neumann; and on issues such as the debate over cold fusion or the continental drift controversy. Their vitality attests to the burgeoning interest in the rhetoric of science.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Science and the Many Faces of Rhetoric - Stephen Toulmin
  4. 2. Rhetoric and Rationality in Williams Harvey's De Motu Cordis - Gerald J. Massey
  5. 3. The Cognitive Functions of Scientific Rhetoric - Philip Kitcher
  6. Comment - Merrilee H. Salmon
  7. 4. How to Tell the Dancer from the Dance: Limits and Proportions in Argument About the Nature of Science - J.E. McGuire and Trevor Meliz
  8. 5. The Strong Program in the Rhetoric of Science - Steve Fuller
  9. 6. Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan: Galileo's Scientific Discourse - R. Feldhay
  10. Comment: A New Way of Seeing Galileo's Sunspots (and New Ways to Talk Too) - Peter Machamer
  11. 7. Rhetoric and the Cold Fusion Controversy: From the Chemists' Woodstock on the Physicists' Altamont - Trevor J. Pinch
  12. Comment - H. Krips
  13. 8. American Intransigence: The Rejection of Continental Drift in the Great Debates of the 1920s - Robert P. Newman
  14. 9. Topics, Tropes, and Tradition: Darwin's Reinvention and Subversion of the Argument to Design - John Augus Campbell
  15. Comment: Darwin's Recapitulation - James G. Lennox
  16. 10. Rhetoric in the Context of Scientific Rationality - John Lyne
  17. Comments: Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Science - Michael Bradie
  18. 11. Rhetoric, Ideology, and Desire in von Neumann's Grundlagen - H. Krips
  19. 12. Eddington and the Idiom of Modernism - Gillian Beer
  20. Comment: Standing on the Threshold - Trevor Melia